WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama is signaling he'll base part of his re-election campaign on an argument that Republicans are pushing discredited economic ideas.
In an interview with ABC News, Obama says the best strategy for economic revival is avoiding the Bush administration and financial community policies that led to the near-collapse of the economy in the fall of 2008.
Obama said the country has "an economy that was built on debt and flimsy financial deals." He added in the interview broadcast Friday that this is a strategy the Republican Party will have to defend this fall, "whether it's Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum, or somebody else,"
The president said, "Why we would want to adopt something that we just tried, and didn't work, doesn't make sense."
MIAMI ? CNN en Espanol is joining the list of Spanish-language networks to co-host debates and forums with the GOP presidential candidates.
On Thursday, CNN en Espanol's top anchor Juan Carlos Lopez will moderate questions from a panel in Miami during the CNN debate in Jacksonville. The debate is also co-hosted by the Hispanic Leadership Network and the Republican Party of Florida.
Last fall, Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart asked questions related to immigration during an MSNBC debate, and he has since interviewed several of the candidates, including Newt Gingrich. On Wednesday, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos went head-to-head in a series of "Meet the Candidate" interviews with Mitt Romney, Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
Lopez has collaborated with CNN before, but Thursday's event will showcase his talents to a much broader, English-speaking audience.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea ? Rebel soldiers seized the military's headquarters Thursday and replaced Papua New Guinea's top general with their own leader, who gave Prime Minister Peter O'Neill a week to step aside for his ousted predecessor.
The new crisis comes during a turbulent period for the South Pacific's most populous island nation, where both O'Neill and former Prime Minister Michael Somare claim to be the rightful leader.
The self-proclaimed new chief of the country's defense forces, retired Col. Yaura Sasa, insisted he was not mounting a coup. But he warned that the military will take unspecified action unless O'Neill stands down and Somare is reinstated, as the national Supreme Court ordered last month.
"Both Sir Michael Somare and O'Neill have seven days to implement the Supreme Court's orders to resolve the current political impasse or I will be forced to take actions to uphold the integrity of the Constitution," Sasa told reporters in Port Moresby.
The government called on Sasa and his supporters to surrender and said the mutiny did not have support from the broader military.
Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah told reporters that about 30 soldiers were involved in the mutiny and 15 of them have been arrested. Namah said Sasa could be charged with treason, which carries the death sentence.
The mutiny started before dawn, when rebel soldiers overpowered guards at the Taurama Barracks in Port Moresby. They then moved to the military headquarters at Murray Barracks and placed the head of the Papua New Guinea Defense Force, Brigadier General Francis Agwi, under house arrest. There were no reports of bloodshed.
The Australian Embassy reported that Agwi was released from house arrest later Thursday, a development welcomed by Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
Sasa, who last served as Papua New Guinea's defense attache to Indonesia before retiring from the military, told reporters he had been legitimately appointed defense chief by Somare.
Somare's spokeswoman Betha Somare told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that his ousted cabinet had confirmed Sasa's appointment several days ago. Betha Somare, who is also Michael Somare's daughter, did not immediately reply to The Associated Press' request for comment on Thursday.
Namah said Somare had "no sanity" and was using "rogue soldiers to pursue his own greed and selfishness."
O'Neill had told Australia ? Papua New Guinea's former colonial master and its main provider of foreign aid ? that "authorities were taking steps to manage the situation," Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard condemned the mutiny.
"The military has no place in PNG politics," she said in a statement.
"It is critical therefore that this situation be resolved peacefully as soon as possible, with the PNG Defense Force chain of command restored," she added.
Somare was Papua New Guinea's first prime minister when it became independent in 1975, and was knighted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Papua New Guinea's Parliament replaced him with O'Neill in August, while Somare was getting medical treatment outside the country.
Last month, the country's Supreme Court and Governor-General Michael Ogio backed Somare, who the court ruled was illegally removed. But Ogio changed his mind days later, saying bad legal advice had led him to incorrectly reinstate Somare.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? The audience for "American Idol" dropped by some 18 percent to 21.6 million viewers when the TV singing contest returned for its 11th season, according to early ratings figures on Thursday.
The drop was even bigger -- about 27 percent -- among viewers 18 to 49-year-olds, the audience group most coveted by advertisers, Nielsen figures showed.
But despite the fall-off, which Fox television executives said they had expected, the two-hour "American Idol" season premiere was still the most-watched show by a huge margin on U.S. television Wednesday night.
The 21.6 million viewers on Wednesday, compared to 26.2 million who watched the 2011 season premiere when new judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez made their first appearance.
Fox television chairman Kevin Reilly said last week that the network was expecting the audience for "American Idol" to be down this season because of the show's age.
But media watchers say "Idol" -- the most-watched show on U.S. television for seven years -- faces the stiffest competition ever in 2012 from rival singing contests "The Voice" on NBC, and the debut season of "The X Factor" on Fox, which ended just one month ago.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
COMMENTARY | I suppose the old maritime tradition of going down with the ship simply doesn't apply anymore. About 20 years ago, we had Capt. Joseph Hazelwood intoxicated at the helm of the Exxon Valdez. I don't think since then we have had as blatant disregard for safety as we have with Costa Concordia Capt. Francesco Schettino.
In what some see as an every man for himself society you could almost always be assured of one thing. If you are on a boat and something went wrong, the captain would be there trying to right what happened. Not Schettino. According to Fox News, an Italian Coast Guard officer was berating him for resisting to return to his sinking ship.
When he signed up to be at the helm of a cruise ship, he knew full well what the responsibility entailed. Being in charge of the safety of his passengers and crew. But at the first sign of trouble he jumped like a rat fleeing the Titanic. According to CNN, 11 people are confirmed dead as of Tuesday morning. Eleven people that aren't going back to their families because of a man wanting to shirk his responsibility when it was needed the most.
The Telegraph is reporting Schettino is facing manslaughter among a slew of other charges. As a former sailor, it's quite difficult for me to imagine the captain of any naval vessel leaving before some of the passengers. The man had a duty if anything went wrong to make sure people didn't get hurt.
To make matters worse, we have all surely heard the statements from passengers on how haphazard the evacuation of the ship was. Perhaps if he would have simply stayed on the boat he was responsible for, people would be touting him as a hero for trying to save lives. Instead, he's going to be forever looked at as a coward that curled up into a ball at the first sign of trouble.
BEIJING ? The World Bank warned Wednesday of a possible slump in global economic growth and urged developing countries to prepare for shocks that could be more severe than the 2008 crisis.
The bank cut its growth forecast for developing countries this year to 5.4 percent from 6.2 percent and for developed countries to 1.4 percent from 2.7 percent. For the 17 countries that use the euro currency, it forecast a contraction, cutting their growth outlook to -0.3 percent from 1.8 percent.
Global growth could be hurt by a recession in Europe and a slowdown in India, Brazil and other developing countries, the Washington-based bank said. It said conditions might worsen if more European countries are unable to raise money in financial markets.
"The global economy is entering into a new phase of uncertainty and danger," said the bank's chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin. "The risks of a global freezing up of capital markets as well as a global crisis similar to what happened in September 2008 are real."
Developing countries that have enjoyed relatively strong growth while the United States and Europe struggled might be hit hard, Lin said. He said they should line up financing in advance to cover budget deficits, review the health of their banks and emphasize spending on social safety nets.
Many governments are in a weaker position than they were to respond to the 2008 global crisis because their debts and budget deficits are bigger, Lin said at a news conference.
In the event of a major crisis, "no country will be spared," Lin said. "The downturn is likely to be longer and deeper than the last one."
The bank's outlook in its "Global Economic Prospects" report issued twice a year adds to mounting gloom amid Europe's debt crisis and high U.S. unemployment.
"It is very likely that most European countries, including Germany, entered recession in the fourth quarter of last year," said Hans Timmer, the World Bank's director of development projects.
Investors have cut investments in developing countries by 45 percent in the second half of last year, compared with the same period in 2010, Timmer said.
The report follows similar warnings about the global economy by its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund, and private sector forecasters.
For the United States, the bank cut this year's growth forecast to 2.2 percent from 2.9 percent and for 2013 to 2.4 percent from 2.7 percent. As reasons, it cited the anticipated global slowdown and the on-going fight in Washington over spending and taxes.
Global growth might suffer from the interaction of Europe's troubles and efforts by China, India, South Africa, Russia and Turkey to cool rapid growth and inflation with interest rate hikes and other measures, the bank said.
China's expansion slowed to a 2 1/2-year low of 8.9 percent in the three months ending in December from the previous quarter's 9.1 percent.
As Europe weakens, developing countries could find "their slowdown might be larger than is necessary to cope with inflation pressures," Lin said.
A global downturn would hurt developing countries by driving down prices for metals, farm goods and other commodities and demand for other exoprts, the World Bank said.
Slower growth is already visible in weakening trade and commodity prices, the World Bank said.
Global exports of goods and services expanded an estimated 6.6 percent in 2011, barely half the previous year's 12.4 percent rate, the bank said. It said the growth rate is expected to fall to 4.7 percent this year.
Prices of energy, metals and farm products are down 10 to 25 percent from their peaks in early 2011, Timmer said.
The United States is already feeling some pain from Europe's crisis. Exports to Europe fell 6 percent in November, the Commerce Department said last week.
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AP Economics Writer Christopher S. Rugaber in Washington contributed.
Destiny's Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams dished on Beyonce's new transition into motherhood over the weekend, breaking their silence on the birth of baby Blue Ivy Carter.
Kelly remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped when asked if Blue's features favored one of her famous parents.
"That will be something that everybody will have to experience the same way I did," Kelly told USA Today. "That's for her parents to disclose, not myself."
Looks like somebody's learning from past mistakes!
Judging from Michelle's comment, I think it's a safe bet to say that Blue takes after her mother: "She is absolutely gorgeous," said the singer. No offense to the father.
In an interview with People, Michelle revealed that at one point Beyonce was thought to be the least likely Destiny's Child member to become a mom.
"We were very shocked. We were laughing with each other the other day and she was like, 'Can y'all believe it? I was the anti - like no children for me,' and she's the first one [of us to have a baby]," Michelle said. "So it was so amazing to see her."
LONDON ? It's spry versus spy as frothy silent movie "The Artist" and moody thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" lead the race for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.
"The Artist" received 12 nominations and "Tinker Tailor" 11, with each film up for best picture and director, and best actor nominations for leading men Jean Dujardin and Gary Oldman.
The other best-film nominees, announced at a ceremony Tuesday by actors Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger, were "The Descendants," "Drive" and "The Help."
In a diverse field not dominated by any single film, there are also multiple nominations for "Hugo," "My Week With Marilyn," "The Iron Lady" and "The Help."
The nominations are another feather in the cap of "The Artist," a black and white French film about a silent screen star's fall with the rise of talkies that has become an unlikely hit. On Sunday it won three Golden Globes, including best musical or comedy film.
Director Michael Hazanavicius said Tuesday he and his crew had been "a bit mad to make a black-and-white silent film in 2011."
"We certainly hoped to find an audience, but the support we have received from so many people in so many different countries was unexpected, overwhelming and quite wonderful," he said.
The shortlist gives a boost to "Tinker Tailor," an atmospheric adaptation of John le Carre's espionage classic that has received rave reviews but has so far been snubbed during the U.S. awards season.
"Tinker Tailor" producer Tim Bevan said the film was a "particularly British cultural phenomenon. It's great that it's being recognized at the BAFTAs but that it hasn't at the Golden Globes is not surprising."
"'The Artist' seems to be the film with the momentum, and rightly so," he said. "It's been an OK year but not a brilliant year for movies, and 'The Artist' defines what cinema should be. It's brave, different, it's got a great shot."
The best actor contest pits Oldman and Dujardin against Brad Pitt for "Moneyball," George Clooney for "The Descendants" and Michael Fassbender for "Shame."
The best actress category includes two performers playing real-life icons ? Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn" and Meryl Streep as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady."
Streep, who has been widely praised for her performance, said the nomination was "thrilling news ... Not just for me, but for the film of which I am very proud, and for the hundreds of people who worked on it! Thanks, from a (New) Jersey girl."
The other nominees are Berenice Bejo for "The Artist," Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and Viola Davis for "The Help."
The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Feb. 12. They are considered an important indicator of prospects at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles two weeks later.
In recent years, the awards, known as BAFTAs, have helped small British films gain momentum for Hollywood success.
In 2010, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" won seven BAFTAs, including best film; it went on to take eight Oscars. Last year "The King's Speech" won seven BAFTAs and four Oscars, including best picture.
"My Week With Marilyn," the story of the movie legend's time shooting an ill-starred comedy in England, received six BAFTA nominations, including a supporting-actor nod for Kenneth Branagh, who plays Laurence Olivier.
He is up against Christopher Plummer for "Beginners," Jim Broadbent for "The Iron Lady," Jonah Hill for "Moneyball" and Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Ides of March."
The supporting actress category features Carey Mulligan for "Drive," Jessica Chastain for "The Help," Judi Dench for "My Week With Marilyn," Melissa McCarthy for "Bridesmaids" and Olivia Spencer for "The Help."
The multinational best-director contest pits Hazanavicius against Denmark's Nicholas Winding Refn, for the turbocharged "Drive," Sweden's Tomas Alfredson for "Tinker Tailor," Britain's Lynne Ramsay for "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and Martin Scorsese of the United States for "Hugo."
The best British film category contains "My Week With Marilyn," racing documentary "Senna," sex-addiction drama "Shame," family tragedy "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
Steven Spielberg's equine adventure "War Horse" was overlooked in the major categories but gained five nominations, including cinematography, visual effects and music.
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You may have heard someone say, or said yourself: "I want to build a business, what should I focus on?" Obviously, the possible answers are nearly infinite. Steve Poland wrote a great post in December that addresses this question directly. I would agree with Steve's main piece of advice for founders and entrepreneurs: Focus on problems. Start with a space you know, and ask yourself what's broken -- big or small. Or, here's an alternative approach, which applies to both app developers and founders. Not only should you do market analysis to see what is already working (and not working), but find out which spaces/categories are already saturated. It's not that high frequency alone should be a deterrent, but just because one category is popular, it doesn't necessarily follow that you can't make money (or more importantly, build something disruptive) in another.
'Dateline NBC,' the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime, premiered in 1992. Since then, it has been pioneering a new approach to primetime news programming. The multi-night franchise, supplemented by frequent specials, allows NBC to consistently and comprehensively present the highest-quality reporting, investigative features, breaking news coverage and newsmaker profiles.
The yellow rickety bus pulls up at the big iron gates. Enthusiastic students, in the midst of a harsh winter, arrive quickly. Others soon appear by foot or pushbike, and they all line up for their daily security pat-down to enter school. But this isn?t just any school, this is Afghanistan?s revived institution for the education of young Afghan musicians.
Ahmad Sarmast, 49, the founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, is an Afghan national from Australia who lives in Kabul most of the year.
?I identified the need to establish a dedicated music college, where the most disadvantaged kids of Afghan society can get their general education and specialist training in music that will guarantee them a bright future,?? he said.
The jovial father of two comes from a family with a rich musical pedigree --?his father was the late, well-known Afghan musician Ustad Sarmast. The younger Sarmast wanted to use that reputation and his qualifications to help his native country. His vision for the school took root in 2006 after he earned his Ph.D. in music at Monash University in Melbourne.
Several years later, the school is thriving, and music teachers come from all over the world to instruct the students.? Instrument tuition ranges from drums, piano and violin to traditional string instruments such as the Sarod and Rubab.
One of the students, who goes by the name Sapna, is an orphan from Jalalabad who is believed to be 9 years old. Now, she says, she can envision a future for herself.
?When they did [the] entrance exam I chose piano -- and I also like violin,? she said. ??I want to be famous all over the world. All kids should learn these things.?
Afghan culture had always provided a rich tapestry of music tradition and history, but when the Taliban captured power in the 1990s, they forcibly banned music in Afghanistan. Musicians suffered discrimination ? in many areas only chanting was permitted. Post-Taliban, Sarmast witnessed a bleak and discouraging picture of the music scene.
?When I saw that very grave picture ? I decided my country needs me and I have to return back to Afghanistan,? Sarmast said. ?That was the major factor for my decision.?
The school now has 140 students with 50 percent of the school enrollment each year reserved for the disadvantaged kids from Afghan society: orphans, street vendors and girls. Sarmast said his school is committed to not only promote music, but to rebuild ruined lives and to empower the women of Afghanistan?to practice and listen to music.
?While we are preserving or reserving 50 percent of the places for the most disadvantaged group of Afghan society, the other 50 percent are the most talented kids of Afghanistan,? he said.??"If they?ve got the talents, we do everything to have them here.?
People in the community are very supportive of the promotion of music, and music education, Sarmast said. ? everyone is trying to get their kids here so that says a lot.?
One man who shares the same vision as Sarmast is popular music teacher William Harvey from Indianapolis, Ind.?who has been teaching at the school since March 2010.? Harvey said he believes in the power of music to transcend cultural barriers. ?It?s a positive experience that transforms the relationship between the countries one person at a time,? he said.
?When I first came here they could only play ?Love Story?, or ?Godfather?, now I have two top students learning Bach?s concerto for two violins,? he added.
Harvey said the students are exceptional and unusual. Teaching the Afghans differs from teaching students in the U.S. because the students often come from very difficult backgrounds.?
?It?s also possible in the U.S., but the social mechanism to support them isn?t always there. If a child is being beaten constantly by her father there is no child protective services here," Harvey said.?"We do have children that used to be selling chewing gum on the street but thanks to the sponsorship program initiated by Dr. Sarmast, now they are studying violin with me.?
Harvey recalled a student of his, a girl who was forced to work on the streets, begging for small change to support her family. Her father had been paralyzed after being beaten with an electric cable during the Taliban?s reign.
"Instead of working on the streets this girl is now studying violin -- and I believe that she has a good shot at a career, not just in Afghanistan but perhaps internationally given the talent that she has shown.?
Harvey said he believes cultural diplomacy is essential for the United States' relationship with Afghanistan. "I remember conducting the orchestra for President Karzai, four times now, and one of those times someone who was a member of the previous government came up to me and shook my hand and I thought, ?Wow ? this is amazing,'? he said. "Because you know under the government that he served music was banned. And here he is shaking hands with an American who just conducted Afghan children ? boys and girls playing Afghan music.?
Sarmast is confident that in 10 years there will be at least three other music schools in Afghanistan.? ?That?s my vision and I?m dedicated to establishing three more. But on the other end I see, and it?s clearly in front of my eyes, the first symphony orchestra of Afghanistan completed by the graduates of ANIM!? he said excitedly.?
"When they play I can see the happiness in their faces ? and how much they are enjoying it,? he said. ?On Sunday I was in the orchestra room and they were rehearsing I couldn?t control my tears when I came out of the studio.?
BRUSSELS (Reuters) ? France risks another downgrade of its sovereign credit rating if its public debt and budget deficit deteriorate further, Standard & Poor's said on Saturday, a day after it cut the country's top-notch AAA rating by one notch to AA+.
"The deficits could increase from the relatively high levels where they are already and reach certain thresholds in the general government debt and deficit ratios, which might lead to another lowering of the rating," S&P credit analyst Moritz Kraemer told a conference call.
Kraemer said the ratings agency was not considering a breakup of the single currency area and that such a scenario was not being factored into its ratings decisions.
Contact: Jim Ritter jritter@lumc.edu 708-216-2445 Loyola University Health System
MAYWOOD, Ill. -- A study about how wearing contact lenses affects glaucoma measurements has been named the top presentation at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine's annual St. Albert's Day research symposium.
First author of the study is Marie Brenner, a fourth-year student at Stritch School of Medicine.
Brenner and colleagues studied the effects of contact lens wear on retinal nerve fiber layer measurements, which ophthalmologists use to diagnose and manage glaucoma. The researchers found that in patients with lower refractive errors, better quality measurements were obtained without contact lenses in place. But in patients with higher refractive errors, wearing contact lenses could improve measurements. (A refractive error is an error in the way the eye focuses light.)
Brenner, who is from Grand Rapids, Mich., plans to do her residency in ophthalmology. Her co-authors are Pooja Jamnadas, MD; Peter Russo, OD; and Shuchi Patel, MD.
St. Albert's Day is an annual event that showcases research by students, residents, fellows, post-doctoral researchers and faculty members at Stritch. It is named after St. Albert the Great (1206-1280), a German philosopher and theologian known as "teacher of everything there is to know."
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MAYWOOD, Ill. -- A study about how wearing contact lenses affects glaucoma measurements has been named the top presentation at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine's annual St. Albert's Day research symposium.
First author of the study is Marie Brenner, a fourth-year student at Stritch School of Medicine.
Brenner and colleagues studied the effects of contact lens wear on retinal nerve fiber layer measurements, which ophthalmologists use to diagnose and manage glaucoma. The researchers found that in patients with lower refractive errors, better quality measurements were obtained without contact lenses in place. But in patients with higher refractive errors, wearing contact lenses could improve measurements. (A refractive error is an error in the way the eye focuses light.)
Brenner, who is from Grand Rapids, Mich., plans to do her residency in ophthalmology. Her co-authors are Pooja Jamnadas, MD; Peter Russo, OD; and Shuchi Patel, MD.
St. Albert's Day is an annual event that showcases research by students, residents, fellows, post-doctoral researchers and faculty members at Stritch. It is named after St. Albert the Great (1206-1280), a German philosopher and theologian known as "teacher of everything there is to know."
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LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) ? Muslim leaders have demanded India ban Salman Rushdie from entering the country to attend a literary festival, re-igniting a decades-old row about the Booker prize-winning author's works.
Rushdie's 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was considered blasphemous by many Muslims and sparked calls for him to be killed, forcing the writer into hiding for years. He has visited India since, although the book is still banned there.
"India is a country where the sentiments of each community and caste are respected and therefore such a man should not be permitted to come to the country," Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali, a prominent Muslim cleric, told Reuters.
His comments echoed those of other clerics at a high-profile Muslim seminary who said Rushdie had offended tens of millions of Muslims by insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to statements made to Indian media.
Rushdie rejected the demand he be denied a travel permit.
"... for the record, I don't need a visa," the Indian-born Rushdie said on Twitter.
Many comments on the microblogging website on Tuesday supported Rushdie, who won the Booker prize for his novel "Midnight's Children" in 1981.
Muslims represent about 13 percent of India's 1.2 billion people.
Rushdie is due to attend Asia's largest literary festival in
historic Jaipur city from January 20-24.
(Writing by Matthias Williams; additional reporting by Matthias Williams, Annie Banerji and Nigam Prusty in NEW DELHI)
Steve Stricker reacts after making a birdie putt on the ninth green during the second round of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Steve Stricker reacts after making a birdie putt on the ninth green during the second round of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Steve Stricker hits from the 17th tee during the second round of the Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Stricker leads the tournament by five strokes after shooting a 10-under-par 63 to finish at total 15-under-par. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Steve Stricker chips the ball up to the ninth green during the second round of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Webb Simpson chips the ball up to the ninth green during the second round of the Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Chris Kirk follows his drive from the third tee during the second round of the Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament in Kapalua, Hawaii, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Kirk shot a 7-under-par 66. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) ? Steve Stricker, considered the best putter on the PGA Tour, felt as though he couldn't miss Saturday at Kapalua. That meant big trouble for the rest of the field at the Tournament of Champions.
Stricker made even some of the longer putts look like tap-ins on his way to a 10-under 63, giving him a five-shot lead over Webb Simpson halfway through the PGA Tour's season opener.
Stricker played the final five holes in 5 under, which included a 3-wood up the hill and into a blazing sun that settled about 12 feet away for eagle. That allowed Stricker to get some separation from Simpson, and from the amazing eagle-eagle finish by Kevin Na.
Stricker was at 15-under 131, two shots off the 36-hole record that Ernie Els set in 2003.
Na, six strokes back at 9 under, wasn't even part of the picture until he holed a 5-iron from 221 yards for eagle on the 554-yard 17th hole, then hit 3-wood down the hill on the par-5 18th to about 10 feet for another eagle.
"I think it'll be the best finish of my life," Na said.
It turned a good round into a 64, and it at least kept Na in the hunt against a 27-man field that suddenly felt much smaller when Stricker put together a strong finish of his own.
Only eight players were within 10 shots of Stricker.
As much as he loves starting his year in Kapalua ? this is his third straight trip, the longest streak of anyone in the field ? Stricker has yet to hoist a trophy with a lei draped around his neck. He took a big step toward that on another day of glorious sunshine.
Starting with a simple up-and-down on the par-5 ninth, Stricker was 7 under over the last 10 holes.
"I felt like I was going to make every putt I looked at for a while," Stricker said.
His big run began with a wedge against the wind that landed softly 7 feet below the hole on No. 14. After his eagle on the 15th, Stricker holed a 15-foot birdie from the front of the green on the 17th, and finished with a long two-putt birdie from just off the 18th.
He has played the par 5s in 9 under for the week.
"I've had some good success here," said Stricker, who has lost in a playoff and tied for fourth over the last four years. "The more times you can play it, the better off you are. I'd sure like to get off to a good start this year."
Rory Sabbatini has been here before, though that didn't keep him from a two-shot penalty at the start of his round for being late to the first tee. It was a bizarre penalty, only because the putting green is about 25 yards below the first tee.
His caddie, Mick Doran, took the blame. Instead of looking at the group ahead tee off, he was checking his watch ? and his watch was four minutes slow. They rushed to the tee, but it was too late.
Sabbatini had a 70 ? including the two-shot penalty ? was 12 shots behind.
"It's the first time ever for me on tour. I know it's the first time for Mick," Sabbatini said. "I guess neither of us were really paying attention. Just one of those goofy moments."
Last year, Doran was on the bag for Camilo Villegas, who was disqualified for tamping down grass as his ball was rolling back toward him.
Martin Laird had a birdie putt on No. 13 to get within one shot of Stricker, his playing partner. Four holes later, he was seven shots behind, hurt mostly by missing two short birdie putts and by hitting his tee shot into the trees on the 17th. A search party found more than a dozen balls, none belonging to Laird.
The Scot had a 70 and was at 8-under 138, along with first-round leader Jonathan Byrd, who had a 71. Chris Kirk was among the early starters and shot 66, though that turned out to be ordinary by the end of the day.
The trade wind has been strong enough to get players' attention, yet gentle enough to allow for good scoring. The key is to keep the ball out of trouble, to be in the right spots on the greens and to make a few putts.
It's that final area where Stricker has few peers.
Perhaps it should be no surprise that when he arrived in Hawaii from a short winter break in Wisconsin ? with a three-day detour to Phoenix to play some golf ? he focused primarily on his putting.
The closest he came to make a bogey came on the par-4 sixth, when he found a bunker at the top of the hill, failed to reach the green and chipped 8 feet by the hole. He poured in the par putt, rolled in a 25-foot birdie on the seventh and was on his way.
"I kind of ran with it," Stricker said. "I felt good. I started making some birdies, and I was patient when I wasn't making some. So it was good, and that's what you have to do when you get it going, it just kind of keep it going."
Even so, Stricker was quick to point that while a five-shot lead usually comes in handy on Saturday, this is only the halfway point for an experimental Monday finish. Besides, Stricker doesn't always make it easy on himself with a big lead.
In his most recent win, he had a four-shot lead at the turn at the Memorial and hung on to win by one shot.
Simpson, playing in the group ahead of Stricker, birdied three of his last four holes to get into the final group. He had made only two birdies until that point, but wasn't about to fret.
"It's the kind of course where you're going to have plenty of birdie opportunities," Simpson said. "So if you can keep your ball in play, you'll probably make a few."
He might need a few more to put pressure on Stricker, who came to Hawaii to see what kind of shape his game was in, and got a pretty good idea after the first two rounds of the year.
SYDNEY (Reuters) ? Three Australian environmental activists were detained on board a Japanese whaling ship on Sunday after boarding in protest at Japan's annual whale cull in the Antarctic, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said.
The three activists from Forest Rescue, an Australian group specializing in direct action to prevent logging, boarded the ship early on Sunday with assistance from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Sea Shepherd said in a statement.
U.S.-based Sea Shepherd is tailing Japan's whaling fleet as it heads towards the Southern Ocean to try to prevent the cull.
The statement described the activists as "prisoners now detained on a Japanese whaler."
Speaking while en route to the Antarctic, Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson told Reuters by satellite phone that the activists were still on board the Shonan Maru 2. He said the Japanese vessel had been sent to disrupt Sea Shepherd's longstanding campaign to stop the cull.
There had been no contact from the Japanese and the activists' radios appeared to have been seized, Watson said from aboard the Steve Irwin, one of two ships heading south with the aim of preventing the hunt from taking place.
"The Shonan Maru won't talk to us. They don't respond to our radio calls," Watson said. "They are chasing us."
A New Zealand-based spokesman for Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, which coordinates the annual hunt, confirmed the three men were on the Japanese boat and uninjured. He did not rule out that they might be taken to Japan.
"The three men are on board," spokesman Glenn Inwood told Reuters. "They are being questioned now and they remain on the vessel."
The Japanese boat, he said, was 40 km (24.9 miles) off the Australian coast when the trio boarded it.
Forest Rescue spokesman Michael Montgomery had earlier said the action was to protest at inaction by the Australian government to stop the hunt and to demand the departure of the whalers from Australian waters.
"We don't need to kill these beautiful creatures any more," he told Reuters.
Sea Shepherd said the three activists came in a boat from Australia's western coast and approached the Shonan Maru 2 in the dark, with assistance from two Sea Shepherd boats.
"The three negotiated their way past the razor wire and spikes and over the rails of the Japanese whaling vessel," the statement said. "They are being held in Australian territorial waters by an invading Japanese vessel containing armed Japanese military personnel."
They carried with them a message reading: "Return us to shore in Australia and then remove yourself from our waters."
Whaling was banned under a 1986 moratorium, but Japan continues to hunt hundreds of whales annually under a loophole that allows whaling for "scientific" purposes.
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ARENAS - Dennis Manuel Arenas, a former resident of Farmington, NM recently went home to be with his Savior Yeshua/Jesus, on Friday, January 6, 2012. He is survived by his loving wife, Patricia Arenas; two sisters, Theresa Padilla and husband Jerome and Margaret Keller and husband Glen; two brothers, Patrick Arenas and wife Nona and Bill Arenas and wife Sally. He was blessed with six beautiful children from a previous marriage with Leona Krivokapich: Theresa, Damian, Katrina, Dennis Jr. and wife, Laura, Rachel, and Kristin and husband, David; 17 wonderful grandchildren; and many more family members and friends. Dennis was preceded in death by his mother, Maria De la Cruz Haws; father, Paul Rudy Arenas; and two grandchildren, Austin Paul Leon Arenas and Eric Rae Arenas. His last five years he came to know his savior Yeshua the Messiah. He was a leader in the Ha Derek Ministry that brought the gospel to the four corners area. He loved this ministry and one of his last wishes was that it would continue. In lieu of flowers, make your donations to: Ha Derek Ministry, 2621 Cagua Dr. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110. Memorial Services will be held Tuesday, January 10, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. at the Olive Tree Fellowship, 2621 Cagua Dr. NE. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 11:15 a.m., at Santa Fe National Cemetery.
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PORTLAND, Maine ? The New England Board of Higher Education is honoring a Maine program that targets high school students who are undecided about higher education but who have the potential to succeed in college.
The board says Early College for ME will be awarded its Maine State Merit Award at the 10th annual New England Higher Education Excellence Awards on March 2 in Boston.
Early College for ME serves more than 1,700 high school students a year, providing support and guidance throughout the college planning process.
Students also get to take up to two community college courses during their senior year, and scholarships of up to $2,000 to the community colleges.
European mountain vegetation shows effects of warmer climatePublic release date: 8-Jan-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Ottar Michelsen ottar.michelsen@ntnu.no 47-735-98719 Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since global climate has been measured, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, no study has yet taken a continental-scale view of the situation until now.
With the publication of "Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change," scheduled for Advance Online Publication (AOP) in Nature Climate Change on 8 January, researchers from 13 countries report clear and statistically significant evidence of a continent-wide warming effect on mountain plant communities.
The findings are "clearly significant," says Ottar Michelsen, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and one of the article's co-authors. "You can find studies that have shown an effect locally, and where researchers try to say something more globally, but in this case, when you have so many mountains in so many regions and can show an effect, that's a big thing."
The article describes the results of a comprehensive effort to measure plant community changes in the mountains over the whole of Europe, with nearly a decade of time between the sampling efforts. Researchers looked at 60 summit sites and 867 vegetation samples from 17 mountain areas across Europe in 2001 and then revisited the mountain sample sites in 2008. In Norway, researchers studied mountain plots in the Dovre region of central Norway.
By comparing the vegetation found in the sample plots in 2001 and 2008, the researchers were able to see a clear shift in the species in the plots towards species that preferred warmer temperatures.
More specifically, the researchers assigned what they called an altitudinal rank to all 764 plant species included in the study. The rank reflects the temperature at which each species has its optimum performance. And because altitude and temperature are directly correlated in each mountain area (the higher your altitude in the mountains, in general, the colder it will be) the location on the mountain where a plant is found reflects its response to the actual temperature at that location.
By summing the altitudinal ranks for the species in the plots, the researchers then used a mathematical formula to give each plot a "thermic vegetation indicator". The indicator was calculated for each plot for 2001 and 2008, and the change in the indicator over the 7 years between sample periods showed researchers whether the mix of plants in each plot had stayed the same or shifted on average to plant types that preferred either colder or warmer temperatures. They then combined the data for the 17 mountain areas for the two time periods to get a continental-scale view of what kind of change, if any, might be underway.
"The transformation of plant communities on a continental scale within less than a decade can be considered a rapid ecosystem response to ongoing climate warming," the researchers wrote. "Although the signal is not statistically significant for single mountain regions, it is clearly significant when data throughout Europe are pooled."
The finding is significant both because the shift in plant communities could be clearly detected over time, but also because it suggests that plants adapted to colder temperatures that are now found in alpine plant communities will be subject to more competition, which "may lead to declines or even local disappearance of alpine plant species," the researchers note. "In fact, declines of extreme high-altitude species at their lower range margins have recently been observed in the Alps."
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European mountain vegetation shows effects of warmer climatePublic release date: 8-Jan-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Ottar Michelsen ottar.michelsen@ntnu.no 47-735-98719 Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since global climate has been measured, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, no study has yet taken a continental-scale view of the situation until now.
With the publication of "Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change," scheduled for Advance Online Publication (AOP) in Nature Climate Change on 8 January, researchers from 13 countries report clear and statistically significant evidence of a continent-wide warming effect on mountain plant communities.
The findings are "clearly significant," says Ottar Michelsen, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and one of the article's co-authors. "You can find studies that have shown an effect locally, and where researchers try to say something more globally, but in this case, when you have so many mountains in so many regions and can show an effect, that's a big thing."
The article describes the results of a comprehensive effort to measure plant community changes in the mountains over the whole of Europe, with nearly a decade of time between the sampling efforts. Researchers looked at 60 summit sites and 867 vegetation samples from 17 mountain areas across Europe in 2001 and then revisited the mountain sample sites in 2008. In Norway, researchers studied mountain plots in the Dovre region of central Norway.
By comparing the vegetation found in the sample plots in 2001 and 2008, the researchers were able to see a clear shift in the species in the plots towards species that preferred warmer temperatures.
More specifically, the researchers assigned what they called an altitudinal rank to all 764 plant species included in the study. The rank reflects the temperature at which each species has its optimum performance. And because altitude and temperature are directly correlated in each mountain area (the higher your altitude in the mountains, in general, the colder it will be) the location on the mountain where a plant is found reflects its response to the actual temperature at that location.
By summing the altitudinal ranks for the species in the plots, the researchers then used a mathematical formula to give each plot a "thermic vegetation indicator". The indicator was calculated for each plot for 2001 and 2008, and the change in the indicator over the 7 years between sample periods showed researchers whether the mix of plants in each plot had stayed the same or shifted on average to plant types that preferred either colder or warmer temperatures. They then combined the data for the 17 mountain areas for the two time periods to get a continental-scale view of what kind of change, if any, might be underway.
"The transformation of plant communities on a continental scale within less than a decade can be considered a rapid ecosystem response to ongoing climate warming," the researchers wrote. "Although the signal is not statistically significant for single mountain regions, it is clearly significant when data throughout Europe are pooled."
The finding is significant both because the shift in plant communities could be clearly detected over time, but also because it suggests that plants adapted to colder temperatures that are now found in alpine plant communities will be subject to more competition, which "may lead to declines or even local disappearance of alpine plant species," the researchers note. "In fact, declines of extreme high-altitude species at their lower range margins have recently been observed in the Alps."
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Utah biologist wins 2011 AAAS Public Engagement with Science AwardPublic release date: 8-Jan-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lee Siegel lee.siegel@utah.edu 801-581-8993 University of Utah
Nalini Nadkarni honored by world's largest general science group
Jan. 9, 2012 University of Utah biology Professor Nalini Nadkarni is being honored by the world's largest general science society the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with the group's 2011 Public Engagement with Science Award. The AAAS has issued the news release below:
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named Nalini M. Nadkarni as the recipient of the 2011 AAAS Public Engagement With Science Award, recognizing "her unique, persistent and innovative public engagement activities that have served to raise awareness of environmental and conservation issues with a broad and exceedingly diverse audience."
Those nominating Nadkarni for the award included the AAAS Committee on Science and Technology Engagement with the Public as well as Peter Raven, a renowned naturalist, past AAAS president and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Nadkarni a professor in the Department of Biology and director of the Center for Science and Math Education at the University of Utah has helped to build bridges between science and society, and between humans and nature, Raven said. "Few people in the world can boast both the scientific pedigree and the innovative science outreach work of Nalini Nadkarni," Raven wrote in a letter of support. "Her combination of creativity and enthusiasm brings scientific information to public audiences who have little or no access to science education."
In particular, said Shirley Malcom, director of education and human resources at AAAS, Nadkarni's outreach efforts "have brought an awareness of environmental issues to people in settings ranging from prisons and churches, to boardrooms, bookstores, legislatures and rap music stores."
Nadkarni established the successful Sustainable Prisons Project, while working for the Evergreen State College, to bring science and scientists to incarcerated men and women in state prison. With funding from the Washington State Department of Corrections, Malcom explained, Nadkarni and her team promote sustainable strategies such as recycling, organic gardening, composting and beekeeping. The program also encompasses education in the form of science lectures and green-collar job training, and conservation efforts such as restoration projects. She engaged inmates as partners in the scientific and conservation process, and ensures that results are disseminated widely to other prisons around the nation.
Another initiative by Nadkarni, supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, resulted in the creation of Tree-Top Barbie as a strategy for teaching girls about the possibilities of careers in science. Her latest project, the Research Ambassadors Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, helps researchers transform their view of public outreach by overcoming barriers to public engagement. She also is the founder of the International Canopy Network, a nonprofit organization established to help foster communication among researchers, educators and conservationists.
Her many honors have included the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, the University of Miami's Distinguished Visiting Professor Award, the J. Sterling Morton Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation, and the Grace Hopper Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the 2010 Public Service Award from the National Science Board.
Nadkarni has raised awareness of forest science and conservation through mainstream environmental media. She has written for popular audiences, served on newspaper boards and offered interviews on National Public Radio as well as for TED lectures. Further, she has collaborated on children's books, winning the Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teacher Association for her acclaimed 2008 book, "Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees."
Nadkarni earned her bachelor's degree with honors from the University of British Columbia and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has published more than 90 scientific articles and two scholarly books. She has been the principal investigator on more than 30 research grants from the NSF, the National Geographic Society and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the 1980s, she was one of a small group of ecologists who pioneered the emerging field of forest canopy studies. Her work documented the critical roles that canopy-dwelling organisms play in whole-forest ecology. Her studies show that treetop communities are vulnerable to human disturbances such as forest fragmentation and global climate change.
The AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science, established in 1987, recognizes scientists and engineers who make outstanding contributions to the "popularization of science." The award conveys a monetary prize of $5,000, a commemorative plaque, complimentary registration and travel to the AAAS Annual Meeting. The award will be presented at the 178th AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which will take place Feb. 16-20, 2012.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine and Science Signaling. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million.
For more information on AAAS awards, see www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/.
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Utah biologist wins 2011 AAAS Public Engagement with Science AwardPublic release date: 8-Jan-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lee Siegel lee.siegel@utah.edu 801-581-8993 University of Utah
Nalini Nadkarni honored by world's largest general science group
Jan. 9, 2012 University of Utah biology Professor Nalini Nadkarni is being honored by the world's largest general science society the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with the group's 2011 Public Engagement with Science Award. The AAAS has issued the news release below:
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named Nalini M. Nadkarni as the recipient of the 2011 AAAS Public Engagement With Science Award, recognizing "her unique, persistent and innovative public engagement activities that have served to raise awareness of environmental and conservation issues with a broad and exceedingly diverse audience."
Those nominating Nadkarni for the award included the AAAS Committee on Science and Technology Engagement with the Public as well as Peter Raven, a renowned naturalist, past AAAS president and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Nadkarni a professor in the Department of Biology and director of the Center for Science and Math Education at the University of Utah has helped to build bridges between science and society, and between humans and nature, Raven said. "Few people in the world can boast both the scientific pedigree and the innovative science outreach work of Nalini Nadkarni," Raven wrote in a letter of support. "Her combination of creativity and enthusiasm brings scientific information to public audiences who have little or no access to science education."
In particular, said Shirley Malcom, director of education and human resources at AAAS, Nadkarni's outreach efforts "have brought an awareness of environmental issues to people in settings ranging from prisons and churches, to boardrooms, bookstores, legislatures and rap music stores."
Nadkarni established the successful Sustainable Prisons Project, while working for the Evergreen State College, to bring science and scientists to incarcerated men and women in state prison. With funding from the Washington State Department of Corrections, Malcom explained, Nadkarni and her team promote sustainable strategies such as recycling, organic gardening, composting and beekeeping. The program also encompasses education in the form of science lectures and green-collar job training, and conservation efforts such as restoration projects. She engaged inmates as partners in the scientific and conservation process, and ensures that results are disseminated widely to other prisons around the nation.
Another initiative by Nadkarni, supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, resulted in the creation of Tree-Top Barbie as a strategy for teaching girls about the possibilities of careers in science. Her latest project, the Research Ambassadors Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, helps researchers transform their view of public outreach by overcoming barriers to public engagement. She also is the founder of the International Canopy Network, a nonprofit organization established to help foster communication among researchers, educators and conservationists.
Her many honors have included the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, the University of Miami's Distinguished Visiting Professor Award, the J. Sterling Morton Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation, and the Grace Hopper Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the 2010 Public Service Award from the National Science Board.
Nadkarni has raised awareness of forest science and conservation through mainstream environmental media. She has written for popular audiences, served on newspaper boards and offered interviews on National Public Radio as well as for TED lectures. Further, she has collaborated on children's books, winning the Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teacher Association for her acclaimed 2008 book, "Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees."
Nadkarni earned her bachelor's degree with honors from the University of British Columbia and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has published more than 90 scientific articles and two scholarly books. She has been the principal investigator on more than 30 research grants from the NSF, the National Geographic Society and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the 1980s, she was one of a small group of ecologists who pioneered the emerging field of forest canopy studies. Her work documented the critical roles that canopy-dwelling organisms play in whole-forest ecology. Her studies show that treetop communities are vulnerable to human disturbances such as forest fragmentation and global climate change.
The AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science, established in 1987, recognizes scientists and engineers who make outstanding contributions to the "popularization of science." The award conveys a monetary prize of $5,000, a commemorative plaque, complimentary registration and travel to the AAAS Annual Meeting. The award will be presented at the 178th AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which will take place Feb. 16-20, 2012.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine and Science Signaling. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million.
For more information on AAAS awards, see www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/.
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